Transcripts For KOFY ABC7 News 900PM On KOFY 20170524 : comp

Transcripts For KOFY ABC7 News 900PM On KOFY 20170524

This comes after the tower reported seeing fire in one of the planes engines. The plane was still taxiing at the time and stopped. Heres what to passengers on board had to say about their or deal. Flight attend ents ants were like get off the plane, get off thane spot it was controlled chaos is probably the best way for me to describe it. Everyone was shaken at first. We were all out on the tarmac but i think as soon as we got in the lounge we saw a lot of comrade did i her and people offering phones to those who had left theirs on the airplane. United released this staple a little while ago saying we are working to get o customers to San Francisco as soon as possible. A flight coming in and out of newark will be delayed for the rest of the night. One passenger we spoke with said he may be landing at sfo after 3 00 in the morning. Live in the newsroom, abc 7 news. Lisa, if you. Britains Prime Minister has raised the nations threat level to critical, thats the highest level meaning another terrorist attack could be immanent. It comes after the bombing last night, 20 dwo people were killed, many of them were children. We have more from manchester. Reporter authorities identifying the suspect salman abedi who was already known to british authorities, even at one point considered a possible terrorist. The spirit of manchester and the spirit of britain is far mightier than the sick plots of deprafd terrorists. Police and int irrelevant poll on the hunt for terrorists on in the deadliest attack in 2005. Every attack has some telltale a aspect to it. He dead e detonated his bomb outside an Ariana Grande concert. They zeroed in on this neighborhood, the brother of sal man abedi identified on the tabloid as pure evil, born in manchester albed did i is the son of immigrants. He was one one of 500 men known to authorities as possible terrorists. Mi 5 were aware of limb, any were aware he posed a potential threat but they didnt think he posed the immanent threat he posed himself do. The neighborhood where he lived considered to be a hot befd ice sis recruit. Just three miemz from the arena. Manchester remaining defiant throughout the terror, signs of un nighty, complete strangers offering hugs and encouragement to one another. Makes you scared at first, but you just realize you cant let them win and you get on with it. British Prime Minister upgrading the let level to critical, the highest level. That means the army could be out patrolling civilian areas in order to free up police to pursue terrorists. The uk attack comes just days before napa valleys big bottlerock festival. We have a look at what to expect. This Construction Zone also known at the napa valley expo fairgrounds where on friday, saturday, sunday, bottlerock returns and with it some 120,000 people. But right nought time cog not be less perfect. I just dont see us as a target. I dont choose to live my life i guess with im not a fearbased person. I dont live my life afraid. The implication that napa, california, is not man chefrt inning gland. But after the fatal attack at a concert there its a question we must ask especially with bottlerock poised to become the center of the worlds concert universe. Antibiotic will rack management declined to answer questions today but did issue a statement which reads in part, napa, valley works to regional and local securities agencies to provide the best security for our guests. So we asked local police. Our security position has not changed. We have worked over the last four years to develop a security plan that we have a high level of confidence in. Before entering the venue, concert goers could expect metal detectors, wandings and bag checks as to preventing threats just outside. I dont know that you could ever control it. I think what we try and do is maintain as highlevel visibility as we can and, again, it comes back. Some of this comes back to the public. In short of a concertgoer sees someone, something suspicious, report it. In these uncertain times, better to be watchful than to become a headline. In napa, wayne friedman, abc 7 news. So many people are sending their thoughts to manchester you can express your condolences by sharing this image on our abc 7 news feback page. A fall play have claimed the life of a woman. Authorities say they found the body, her caretaker last saw her on friday night, she was spotted on Surveillance Video near where her body was found. She was discovered 100 fifrt feet down a steep ravine. Deputies say she may have slipped. Police hope you can find a suspect that showed up in a waenz bedroom. She said a man who looks like this got in her bedroom, stood at the foot of her bed and shined the light in her eyes. He took off when he saw the womans boir friend. This happened in the terra linda area. They want to hear from anyone who recognizes the man in this sketch. A massive landslide that i hit highway 101 over the weekend could take months to repair. It happened south of big sur. A quarter of a mile of hillsdale hillside gave way. Most of it dropped 200 feet into the ocean, engineers are just starting to assess the damage. They expect the repairs will take months if not longer. It should be easier if the roadway is still there, not easy but not as complicated as if the roadway is missing, which we think might be the case. This closure comes on top of another closure fot north of big sur thats make access to the local communities difficult for residents and tourists. You might recall a major slide damaged the fwlij january. They were set to open in september. You can get to Pfeiffer Big Sur State Park which has just partially reopened. The droughts over but some east bay water customers may still have to pay more for their water. New proposal would hike briesz 18 over the next two years. That would be a 9. 25 increase this july then another 9 increase next july. Heres abc 7 News Reporter laura an knowny. Reporter rains did their part, and the reservoirs are brimming. But that doesnt mean east bay mud customers will get a break on their rates. Likely, quite the opposite. Despite the wet winter and partly due to the fact that rate pairs got good at not using water. Our customers have done a great job of conserving. Over call they caught their water use bij a 20 . Less water consumption means lower revenues for east bay mud which counts 90 of its cost as fixed. There are with some projects that were deferred after the last drought as a costcutting measure. We dont want to do thatny longer. Thats why theyre propose a rant crease of 18 over two years starting with more than 9 this summer. I have to say im a little disappointed because weave all done our fair share of conserving over the last three years probably. Much of the new revenues would go toward projects like this one in laugh yet where old pipes are being replaced with new, more reliable conveyance systems. I think theyve got fixed costs, theyve got to make it up someway. Im okay as long as everyones saving and conserving water. East bay muddle hold public hearings on the potential rate increases in july. Laura an antthy area nbs 7 yuz. Water rates were schedule to good in her rain, san bruno and other areas. Meanwhile were san mateo residents are looking at a 36 increase in their sewage rates to pay for its treatment plant. Preventing Sexual Harassment in schools. Up next the young women who are leading this effort. Also the flint stone house off the market. The whimsical home has findly found a buyer. Drew with the weather. And temperatures cooler than this time yesterday and that trend will continue into tomorrow. Let you know about that in the accuweather forecast. Every school has a Sexual Harassment policy but oakland will soon have a new policy modified by female students. Abc 7 News Reporter reports on the chaes that are coming. Slap a girls rear end on fridays has been going on in some schools for years. They say theres nothing playful about that behavior. They sexually harass gills, touch then inappropriately and girls will speak up like its not okay but no wasnt respect whend it came out of our moumz. There are a lot of bless ages we hear from music, what we see on tell vig, music video. This is a former oakland student. She says those messages are sometimes embedded in Popular Culture making them acceptable when they shouldnt be. But a new student drivenSexual Harassment policy wants to change that. Oaklands unified and alliance for girls got together to modify the directs existing Sexual Harassment policy. One major change is getting rid of language that suggests that a victim may be penalized for reporting Sexual Harassment. So that automatically shuts people down and say, i dont even want to risk making this worse than what ive already experienced so id just raernl not say anything and just, you know, sweep it under the rug. Another important new step is to keep the victim of Sexual Harassment informed the process from start to finish. Weve identified for the School Direct a person who can be responsible for making sure it gets from the time of the reporting all the way to the time of the resolution. The new policy will be presented to oaklands board of education tomorrow night. Its expected to pass unanimously. In oakland, abc 7 news. Asian airlines has responded to a man who was asked to move from his seat because of his prosthetic leg. They record the event. It happened on a flight from bay zwroing seoul on sunday. Now he sies he paid extra for a seat with more legroom and that he sat in exit rows many times and is fully capable of performing the necessary safety duties. Today the airline said that the faa regulation says that the airlines reserve the right to judge whether the passenger would be able to perform the required safety procedures in the case of an emergency. They say he did not pay extra for the seat. Economists are always looking for trends that the forecast change and today a sharp drop in new home sales is raising questions of whether the Real Estate Market is showing some signs of soft evening. David louis takes a look. Theres a construction frenzy across the south bay. Kb home for example has selling under way in 26 bay area communities, hofl half of them in the south bay. The u. S. Commerce department noticed a hiccup last month, new home sales in the west dropped 2060 . The biggest drop in 26 years. The new home sales maybe the leading indicator of the home sales drop. Hes starting to see a soft evening of the market. Where i used to get ten or 12 offers on a market now ill be two or three. The median price in san jose hoz gone from 800,000 to 1 million but the number of buyers who can afford to buy that home is at a tipping point. Right now its about 10 perse fwhun five families can afford to bite median priced home. If that number falls below 20 kmers it did in 2016 and 7, typically we see a slowing in the marketplace. No one is predicting a bubble bursting but changing could be in the wind had the housing cycles tend to run five to seven years from the time a recovery starts until a market becomes a bit tense and could develop a develop. Were current fli year five of a Housing Market recovery. Still, Housing Developers see the south bay being a strong market due to the growth in jobs and scarce sity of land. Many projects are being built near bub transit including the bart service in san jose. The landmark flint stone house in hillsboro has a buyer. Deal hasnt closed yet but it is in contract. That house hit the market in 2014 for 4. 2 million. The asking price was reduced twice last year by a total of a million dollars. That house was built in 1976. Its clearly visible to commuters on 280. Climbers wont be able to scale the half dome this weekend. Massive amounts of snow is delaying the installation of the stops approximately it looks lick they wont be installed until june 2nd at the earl earliest. Anyone who paid for a hiking permit before the cables are installed will get a refund. Look at the line of people that are going that. Dwou that . It would be cool to do actually. That wasnt a did he fintive yes. I dont think either one of us would do it. Drew you too man, are you a climbing guy . No. Three cowards here. Yeah. Heights are not my thing. Live do, seven, we are seeing that fog return very quickly and thats going to bring in cooler temperatures tomorrow afternoon once again. Live do lar 7 along with satellite you see that grade shating on your screen, you want to skoom in very close to the coast around month terra, daley city and the fog has returned and it will make that push inland tonight. Pier 15 you see the skyline of San Francisco slightly obscured by the marine layer, not very thick tonight. That means tomorrow morning its going to quickly burn off kwuns again. But it will bring much cooler ocean fair, fairfield and livermore nine to ten degrees cooler right now than we were this time last night. It feels a lot better out there. Were breaking that heat thats been with us inn land for several days. And four degrees cooler in san jose. Out there right now, a lot of 50s and 60s on the board. 62 that current number in san jose, 57 in oakland were were at 55 in nevada, but brentwood still hold og ton clear skies and mild temperatures at 72 degrees. Overnight tonight the cause that the fog will return it will push inland you see that contour on your screen have a lot of white on your screen, thats the fog. By 9 00 in the morning its beginning its journey back to the coast. We do expect that fog to break quickly, only exception right along the coast you can see its going to hold on. Mainly cloudy skies for coastal communities but with that marine layer it will create cooler afternoons tomorrow and also on thursday. So overnight tonight a lot of cloud cover, mainly cloudy skies in much. Bay area. 55 in san jose, fieft 3 oakland, 49 that low in napa. On our wednesday it will abe blend of sunshine and clouds throughout the day, cooler in the south, more typical for this time year, 75 in san jose, 74 that number in santa clair are, 70 nait gilroy. Along the peninsula, 74 palo alto but the coast have you that fog sticking with us so temperatures struggling to get out of the 50s. Downtown San Francisco, saund clouds tomorrow, 63 thats actually slightly below normal for this time of year, 57 for daly city. 70 in nevada, 68 in vallejo, the warm spot lakeport, 882 degrees. Oakland tomorrow 68, 72 fremont, 71 that yub kat castro valley, ib land sets and 80s. 81 brentwood in antioch. We are having some changes to the pollen in our air. Tree pollen still at high levels, grass pollen coming down to moderate levels that uv index is very high. Sevenday forec continues and that will continue into thursday with increasing clouds below normal for fry but all indications the Holiday Weekend looking really nice, warming trend and by memorial day you can see were back into the 70s and 80s across much of the reason. Looks pleasant. Its going to be nice. Thank you. Well uber admits to a costly mistake how dollars and cents could today uber admitted it short changed drivers in new york city. Uber says it collected tens of millions of dollars more ha from the drivers than it should have for nearly three years starting in 2014. Thousands of drivers in new york city will now get about 900 each. The Transportation Network says was incollide a city fee in sales tax in its 25 cut of fairs. They say they noticed the problem after announcing a new Pricing System on friday. San Francisco Alamo scare park is set to reopen tomorrow. The city spent 5 million to replace the grass with a drought resistant variety. It alsod new benches and water filling station the restrooms have been update and singleuser restroom that can accommodate wheelchairs. Reopening ceremony is planned for 11 30 tomorrow morning. Volunteers pitched in to help spruce up a Homeless Center in oakland at the patched and painted the interior of the covenant house. This is part of national painteding week. Sherwinwilliams set up more than 200 projects nationwide covering the supplies and the time. They say its important that the space is comfortable and lively for the underserved people who use it to study or search for jobs. Snapchat is set to unveil a new way to share videos with your friends. Theyre adding a feature called custom stories. It is the latest in a recent string of new features. Earlier this month snapchat said it would do away with time limits on snaps. New details on that deadly a tack at an ar anya grande concert. They rlgs the name of the man they believe committed the bombing. The former head of the cia heads to congress, what he said abou for millions of baby boomers theres a serious virus out there thats been almost forgotten. Its hepatitis c. One in 30 boomers has hep c, yet most dont even know it. Because it can hide in your body for years without symptoms, and its not tested for in routine blood work. The cdc recommends all baby boomers get tested. If you have hep c, it can be cured. For us its time to get tested. Ask your Healthcare Provider for the simple blood test. Its the only way to know for sure. Live, where you live, this is abc 7 news. Right now the terror alert level is in critical in britain after last nights attack outside a Ariana Grande concert. Police say 22yearold salman abead did i died in the attack. He was bornd and raised in britt tan. Today they raided his home and arrested another man. Theyre not sure if abedi ask part of a met work. Theyre allowing british soldiers to call in security for soccer matches. May called the attack coward es President Trump used another world. I will call them from now on losers because thats what they are. Theyre losers. Ariana grande has returned to her florida home. Her tour has been postponed. These games will see tighter security for the rest of the season. Theyll patrol the washing parking lot, walk the exterior with bombsnifg dogs and assist with Security Check points. They say these actions are a direct result of the terror attack in britt ann. The fbi co

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